Thermo Mirror to Detect Human Body Temperature
Sometimes we get tired of staring into the mirror. The standard mirror really doesn't do much, but the Thermo Mirror is another story.
The device,...
Harvesting Energy from Cellphone Calls
Sounds incredible but the scientists from Korea have turned the main ingredient of calamine lotion into a tiny material that converts sound waves into electricity.
Just...
The Noise About Graphene
In last week’s announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences lauded graphene’s “exceptional properties that originate from the...
Antihydrogen Atoms Stored for the First Time
Atoms of antimatter have been trapped and stored for the first time by the ALPHA collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN,...
The ILHYPOS supercapacitor to improve power and efficiency and increase battery life of electric...
The search for a new clean energy increases worldwide as the sources of natural energy diminish. The transport sector is especially vulnerable, by the...
Stay super-dry with Nokia’s nanotechnology
What happens when a drop of water falls on a lotus leaf? It’s not a philosophical question, but a natural phenomenon scientists have been...
Japanese Wind Power Plants Survive the Earthquake
Wind power capacity increased quickly in the past ten years in Japan, but most recently the sector has experienced a slowdown because of following...
Energy efficiency for internet servers with new computer memory device
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new device that represents a significant advance for computer memory, making large-scale “server farms” more...
Silk Technology Offers Solutions for Medicine and Electronics
An ancient fiber could soon be spun into cutting edge technology. Recent discoveries and new processing techniques have shown that silk can offer innovative...
Developing a high-performance low-cost green LEDs, the key to white LEDs
First discovered in the 1920s, LEDs – light-emitting diodes – are semiconductors that convert electricity into light.
When switched on, swarms of electrons pass through...